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Re: Dead Amigas
« on: November 01, 2003, 06:08:42 AM »
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DoomMaster wrote:
NONE of my Amiga computers have ever died on me.


Don't worry, your time will come.  It is inevitable.

Offtopic but, I once thought a rather important HP1000 had died on me.  I arrived at work that morning, started up the ICT machine and went off to do other things while it started up.  20 or 30 minutes later, I sat down at the terminal, and try to log on.  No RTE logon prompt.  So, I made sure the terminal wasn't in some wierd mode, checked cables and tried again.  Still no prompt.  Now I'm worried.

I tried some other things like sending commands from terminal zero and power cycling the computer.  After a couple hours of troubleshooting, it turned out that I caused the problem.

The evening before, I gave the computer a cleaning and reseated all the cables and cards including a 3MB RAM card.  While moving the RAM card, I flipped a DIP switch.  The computer thought it had 10MB of memory when it really only had 4.
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